2027 is a good year for anyone who plans their leave around the Dutch public holidays.
King’s Day falls on a Tuesday, Ascension Day on its usual Thursday, and Easter Monday and Whit Monday each hand you a long weekend before you spend a single leave day.
Put four leave days next to any of those holidays and you get nine days off in a row.
Join King’s Day and Ascension Day with eight leave days and you are away for sixteen days, from Saturday 24 April to Sunday 9 May.
The planner below does the arithmetic for you.
Tell it which days you work, how many leave days you have and which public holidays your employer actually gives you, and it finds the best breaks of the year.
Planning with a partner? Switch on the second person and it only suggests breaks you can both take, counting each of your leave days separately.
Families can limit it to the Amsterdam school holidays.
Good to know
Christmas Day and Second Christmas Day both fall on a weekend in 2027, and New Year’s Day 2028 is a Saturday.
The Netherlands does not move a public holiday to a weekday when it falls on a weekend, so these give you no extra day off.
Liberation Day on Wednesday 5 May is a national holiday, but it is only a paid day off if your contract or collective agreement says so.
Many give it only once every five years, and the next of those is 2030.
Good Friday is recognised as a public holiday, but most employers do not give it as a day off.
Full-time employees in the Netherlands are entitled to at least four times their weekly working hours in leave, which is 20 days for a five-day week.
Many employers give more, so check your contract before you plan.